The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-22
HERR AND THERE
Canada has an oatmeal trust


In Boston there arc nine hundred negroes
who were Urn subjects to the British crown.
A visitor to Boston says that he WAS sicken.
ed by seeing women chewing wooden tooth
picks.
In parts OF Gallatln county, Montana, over
enc hundred bushels Of oats have been raised
TO the acre.
A firm In Springfield, w.. that makes baby
carriages, says that the wealthy buy the cheap
CT kind Of carriages.
A Texas Jury gave . verdict OF elo 70 In
favor OF . man whose dog had been run over
and killed BY railway train.
A druggist was convicted Of violating the
law against selling soda-water, and heavily
aned at Pittsburgh few DAYS ago.
A polar bear recently brought to Ban Fran.
cisco is treated 70 . bath Of ice-water every
half hour to make him feel at home.
The heaviest vste ever cast In Tennessee
was at the last election when prohibition, out
If a total vote Of 90, 7ol, received 1l7,5N
ballots.
Whether Delaware shall have . new con.
stitutlon or not 10 10 be voted upon by the
people Of that state at special election on
the lst Of November
The great equatorial telescope at the nation.
Al observatory In Washington ranks with the
foremost In the world In every particular. 1t
weighs 10000 pounda
Although natives OF the Flowery kingdom
are said to be popular In the west there 10 .
complaint In some parts Of Oregon Of
scarcity Of cheap Chinese labor.
A hen owned by woman ct Indian Springs,
Fla, Is covered with hair instead Of feathers.
The chickens raised by the hen are Ute her.
self, but they always die In infancy.
1t is learned that the terribly destructive
forest fires which have been raging In Nevada
county, California, for few weeks past were
'et by an individual who loved pyrosechnics.
The microscope Is said 70 be = popular
amusement In New York society, and Dies
Wings dust from . butterny's wings and
similar articles are the objects Of assiduous
collection.
Postmaster Richard Chadwick, Of South
Lynne, Conn.,, received his commission from
President Van Buren, forty-elght years ago.
During his tims postage has been reduced
from % to Q centA
Near Washington, N. T., . party Of fox.
hunters ran fox into town, where, after run
ming about for while, It dashed into police
tatlon and up-staira Its flight WAS arrested
by the policemen.
Two families occupying the same house In
Wallingford, Conn, fought long and bitterly
until the woman on the frst floor burned
feathers and cayenne pepper. Then the wom-
IN on the second noor capltulsted and moved
out
An American who 10 at present resident Of
Germany has invented . new process Of tan.
aing In which . solution Of sulphate Of iron,
sods, and sulphurie acid 10 used, castor oil
and spirits Of wine completing the manipuls-
ton.
A sad story Of the life Of the waitsr-girls In
the Bar Hsrbor hotels Is told BY The ElsworM
(Me.) AmerieoW. II says that tho life there
10 very demoralisIng, and that many an inno-
cent country girl falls into fast company and
Is ruined there.
Great Improvement has been made Of late
years In the tools used for boring tunnela In
one month, recently, 430 feet were bored In
the Cascade tunnel In Washington territory.
which Is tho greatest distance ever accomplish
ed In single month In tunnellng.
It 10 said that among the English lower
classes q belief IL common that all patent
medicines are the property Of the government,
being valuable remedies that have been
bought at great price and sold BY paternal
government at comparatively nominal rates
Potatoes are 90 scarce In Maine this year
that farmers will DO compelled to send to
western states for enough to plant thet' next
years crop II Is said that two men can dig
all day In a potato field and obtain only nine
bushels, and many Of these are two small for
use.
The town Of Aeca-Meca, Mexico, probably
the highest human habitstion on the globe, 10
situated on side OF Mount Popocstepell, 49,
900 feet above the sea II 10 an exceedingly
cold place, the inhabitants wearing the thick.
est Of cloth 10 keep themselves from being
frozen 70 death.
Alta recent ball at Oldtown, Me-, recently
given BY the governor Of the Maine Indians,
one handsome young souaw WAS fairly daz-
cling In . very becoming costume Of blue satin
and old-gold plush, with an deliberately en-.
broidered front to the skirt and another wore
dress Of combined bright scarlet and bright
blue.
An ingenious Frenchman has invented .
system by which train of cars can be brought
to 4 stop very quickly. This 10 accomplished
by the use Of compressed air. The traveller
has only to pull rope to bring the train to .
halt, and at the same TO detsch signal which
indicates In which oompsrtmsnt-car help 10
required.
A negro At Macon, Ca, was the other day
struck sauarely on the head by bucket filled
with fresh mortar, which had fallen from the
top Of the new court house. The bottom was